Even though the Bush administration has identified failed states for acting as breeding grounds for terrorists, it is doing very little to improve those countries and reduce the risk they pose to national security, according to a report released on...

The heirs to the Hapsburg dynasty, whose forebears ruled central Europe for over 600 years in an empire that once stretched from Russia to Spain, have asked the Austrian government to return forests, homes and a palace seized by the Nazis on the eve...

February 23, 2003, Sunday

Winter Harvest In the very cold winter of 1880, James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) found himself in Venice. He did not intend to stay longer than necessary to complete a commission for 12 etchings, but he fell in love with the city. He...

The provocative book jacket a swastika made of gold ingots laid over the Swiss national flag -- was posted for months on Web sites, including Amazon's, and no one objected. When this jacket for ''Imperfect Justice,'' an account of the tortuous...

The European Union asked the World Trade Organization today to approve more than $4 billion in trade sanctions on American products to retaliate for what it says is an illegal tax break granted to exporters in the United States. The request for...

It has been 55 years since Karel Horak was forced to work at Czech factories seized by Hitler's forces. Today, as he watched with the patience acquired over a long life, the United States and Germany approved a $5 billion agreement to compensate...